Sad-iron



(No Model.)

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SAD IRON.

No. 341,619. Patent-ed May 11, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EGBERT O. ODD, OF N ASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SAD-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,619, dated May 11,1886.

Application filed May 4, 1885. Serial No. 164,332. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EGBERT 0. W001), a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sad-Irons with Removable Handles, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved sad-iron with a removable handle, the handle being shown in position above the body of the sadiron, ready to be attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical central section of Fig. 1, the handle being shown in attached position to the body of the sad-iron; and Fig. 3 is an inverted view of the removable handle portion of the sad-iron, and shows lugs f, which project downwardly from the plate A of said handle portion, in order to keep the plate A from full contact with the body portion A, when said plate and body portion are connected ready for use, this construction being a modification of that shown in Fig. 1.

The object of the invention is to furnish ready means for attaching and detaching the handle of a sad-iron, which handle may serve as such for the body portion of either one or more sad-irons.

In the figures, A indicates the ordinary body portion of a sad-iron, and which is made with a longitudinal central projecting portion, A, which affords a seat for the handle B when in place thereon, as shown in Fig. 2, and which at the same time prevents the locking metal plate A of the handle from coming in full contact with the heated body portion A when the sad-iron is in the act of use. The raised portion A is provided with a forward guide-lug, a, a central hook-lug, a, and a retaining-lug, a, as shown. The handle B is provided with a hand-bar, b, of wood, applied to upright portions 9 g of the metal plate A as, shown, and is adapted to be grasped by the hand'of the operator, the side flanges, c 0, serving to shield the hand of the operator from the heat of the body A while in the act of ironing.

D indicates a thumb lock-bar pivoted to 'lugs e e of the plate A as indicated in the as f, applied to the forward end of a leverplate, f, the rear end of which is directly over an opening, f through the plate A of the handle B, said thumb lock-bar D being held in normal position (shown in the figures) bythe upward pressure of a coil-spring, w, suitably applied between the forward end of the thumb lock-bar D and the plate A as shown.

In the act of applying the handle B to its seated position, (shown in Fig. 2,) the forward end of the handle is tipped down, so as to cause its channel-way, as (e to become seated over the guide-lug a at a point midway of the length of said lug. This act properly centers the handle B, whereupon the handle is then fully depressed until the plate A becomes properly seated upon the raised portion A of the sad-iron. This act of fully depressing the handle B will cause the hook-lug a to pass up through the opening f of the plate A while the log a will also project up through the opening f of said plate, and with the rear end of the lever-plate f of the thumbbar D resting upon the top of the lug a". The handle 13 is now shoved forward, thus bringing the portion o o of the plate A directly under the hook-lug a, as shown in Fig. 2, while at the same time the rear portion, f, of the thumb lockbar D will fall down forward of the lug a and over that portion of the openingf not occupied by the lug a In this manner the handle B becomes automatically locked to the body portion A of the sad-iron. The operator by pressing upon the buttonf of the lock-bar D, so as to set free the rear end of the plate f from contact with the lug a", can then withdraw the parts 1) o of the plate A from beneath the hook -lug a, and thus withdraw the handle B from connection with the body portion A of the sad-iron.

I contemplate making the part A separate from the body portion A, and thus enable me to apply it to a sad-iron which has been in use having a common handle, first removing the common handle, and so convert the common sad-iron into one which is adapted to be used with my improved handle 13. In such case screws, as at m m, may be used to connect the raised portion A to the body portion A.

with spring 00 beneath the bnttonf, between the upright portions g g of the handle 13, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EGBERT 0 \VOOD.

Witnesses:

R. '1. SMITH, O. L. LOVELAND. 

